Erica Benedetti was born in Como (Italy) in 1984. She studied at the University of Insubria (Italy) where she obtained a master’s degree in Chemistry in 2008. She performed her doctoral studies at the University of Insubria, in co-tutorship with the Sorbonne Université, under the supervision Prof. A. Penoni and Prof. L. Fensterbank. She obtained her Ph.D. in 2011. During her Ph.D. thesis, E. Benedetti has been involved in projects aiming at preparing heterocyclic molecules using transition metal-catalyzed cyclisation reactions, with a particular focus on gold-catalyzed cycloizomerizations. In 2012, she joined the team of Prof. K. M. Brummond as a postdoctoral research associate. Her projects at the University of Pittsburgh (USA) have been focused on the synthesis and photophysical study of naphthalene-based solvatochromic dyes. During this first postdoc, E. Benedetti gained competence in fluorophore chemistry and spectroscopic characterization (UV-Vis and fluorescence spectroscopy). In 2013, she moved back to France to perform a second postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Prof. J. Cossy, and Dr. S. Arseniyadis (ESPCI Paris, PSL). There, she had the possibility to work on projects dealing with the development of bio-hybrid supramolecular catalytic systems involving the use of DNA or RNA sequences as chiral inductors in nucleophilic addition reactions. In this occasion, she acquired strong skills in asymmetric catalysis, and became familiar with different types of large biological molecules and supramolecular interactions. In 2014, after being successful to the CNRS entrance exam, she was appointed as junior researcher in the team of Dr. L. Micouin (UMR8601 - Université Paris Cité). The interests of the group span a wide range of topics in the fields of synthetic organic chemistry and chemical biology, all of them being grounded on molecular innovation. E. Benedetti’s current research projects focus on different aspects of [2.2]paracyclophane chemistry: the control of the planar chirality of these objects, the selective functionalization of their aromatic core, the modulation of their spectroscopic behavior, and the application of these compounds in different research fields (asymmetric catalysis, and bioorganic chemistry). E. Benedetti is co-author of 30 publications appeared in peer-reviewed journals. She is co-inventor of two patents, and co-author of four book chapters published by Wiley. She received the CNRS Bronze Medal in 2022.